AGE NO BAR.
LEADING BRITISH JUDGES. “I was made a Judge when I was 52, and I hope to continue for another 20 or 30 years,” the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart, told a commission for speeding-up the law in Britain. / Lord Hewart, who is 65, and was married for the second time last year, was replying to a suggestion that a retiring age for Judges should be introduced. He added: “I do not see why a retiring age is more desirable in the future than in the past. However tjie knife fell it would take off many good senior men. Where is the country going to find a similar resrvoir of learning, experience and wisdom? “Sir Horace Avory, who is in his 84th year, sits alongside mo daily. Ho is an encyclopaedia of knowledge on criminal and other law. It would have been a loss if he had retired at 70 or 75. “If a Judge appears unfit, an intimate colleague drops a hint, which is taken. I do not recollect one Judge lingering too long.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 158, 4 June 1935, Page 11
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179AGE NO BAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 158, 4 June 1935, Page 11
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